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I like his style actually. I've never really had an opinion on the guy, but in everything I've read about him, I can't fault him. Despite being a communist and some of the bad baggage that comes with that, he's done some good things for his country.

Well ... I wouldn't go as far as saying he has "won" anything besides his revolution, and repelling the "Bay of Pigs" invasion. Just the fact that he has clung to power this long is amazing! I mean the guy was beefing with JFK way back when!!Cuba is extemely impoverished, artists, musicians and intellectuals defect at every possible opportunity in order to be able to say and express what they want. I think the economy's primary focus agriculture and foreign tourism.The U.S. is partially at fault for keeping it under embargo for this long, I mean if we opened up travel restrictions and began some trade reletionships, Cuba might make a little more bread.They do have FREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION as well as FREE HEALTHCARE and GUARANTEED HOUSING FOR ALL CITIZENS. Back to Fidel ... he's got guts. He gets my bad ass vote.

Thank you expatriate ghost. You managed to give in detail exactly what I meant with "Despite being a communist and some of the bad baggage that comes with that, he's done some good things for his country."

I beleive that the University of Havana is free, but probably only to Cuban citizens. They do have a free medical school you can attend as an american citizen, but then you are required to come back here and work in the impoverished areas of the US for some time before you go on to an illustrious medical career and a penthouse apartment in midtown manhattan among us bourgeois pigs.

Spending my childhood in a formerly socialist country (yugoslavia) and talking to my folks that went to school there, I can tell you that college was free as well as doctors.

But as Mr. Rage says, theres some bad baggage that came along with that.

well... i don't really have any problems with him. i love seeing him sitting there with his military uniform smoking a huge cuban cigar. i don't know why... i just dig it. i guess people look more distinguished with cigars? i don't know. but he seems like an ok guy. the only problem i see is that he's communist. blah.. but oh well.

"when you look around, you can't tell me honestly you're happy with what you see"

Cuz those who "dare" get on a raft a usually middle class white who benefited from a premium education and elect to come to the US. This means that they've reneged on a promise to return service to the country in return for this education. Kinda like going to West Point , then bailing from military service...... You don't usually see Black Cubans on those raft...........usually well educated whites........The blacks excel in government, and in sports.

After the American Revolution over one-hundred thousand people fled from a country where there were only about two million. The Cuban revolution was a genuine social revolution, so more people would be at odds with the government. And those that flee ARE formerly rich or those who served in Batista's brutal government and their family members. For most Cubans, the Revolution has given them more than they ever could have come close to possibly getting under the American sponsored corporate-mafia dictatorship.

"The constitutional republic is a dictatorship of our collective exploiters, the social democratic red republic is a dictatorship of their former allies." -Karl Marx